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In this exciting era of cognitive computing, conversational agents have a promising utility and are the subject of this thesis. Conversational agents aim to offer an alternative to traditional methods for humans to engage with technology. This can mean to reduce human effort to complete a task using reasoning capabilities and by exploiting context, or allow voice interaction when traditional methods are not available or inconvenient. This thesis explores technologies that power conversational applications such as virtual assistants, chatbots and conversational agents to gain a deeper understanding of the frameworks used to build them. This thesis introduces Foodie, a conversational kitchen assistant built using IBM Watson technology. The aim of Foodie is to assist families in improving their eating habits through recipe recommendations taking into account personal contexts, such as allergies and dietary goals while helping reduce food waste and managing grocery budgets. This thesis discusses Foodie's architecture and derives a design methodology for building conversational agents. This thesis explores context-aware systems and their representation in conversational applications. Through Foodie, we characterize the contextual data and define its methods of interaction with the application. Foodie reasons using IBM Watson's conversational services to recognize users' intents and understand events related to the users and their context. This thesis discusses our experiences in building conversational agents with Watson, including features that may improve the development experience for creating rich conversations. / Graduate

Submitted by Rodrigo Martins Cruz (rodrigo.cruz@ufvjm.edu.br) on 2015-10-26T12:21:30Z No. of bitstreams: 2 amelia_katiane_almeida.pdf: 1222604 bytes, checksum: 425b7619f4dc4922de71736b30ce9457 (MD5) license_rdf: 22974 bytes, checksum: 99c771d9f0b9c46790009b9874d49253 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rodrigo Martins Cruz (rodrigo.cruz@ufvjm.edu.br) on 2015-10-26T12:21:49Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 amelia_katiane_almeida.pdf: 1222604 bytes, checksum: 425b7619f4dc4922de71736b30ce9457 (MD5) license_rdf: 22974 bytes, checksum: 99c771d9f0b9c46790009b9874d49253 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-10-26T12:21:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 amelia_katiane_almeida.pdf: 1222604 bytes, checksum: 425b7619f4dc4922de71736b30ce9457 (MD5) license_rdf: 22974 bytes, checksum: 99c771d9f0b9c46790009b9874d49253 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Funda??o de Amparo ? Pesquisa do estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) / O experimento foi realizado na Fazenda Experimental do Moura, Curvelo-MG, no Setor de Ovinos da FCA da Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri. Foram utilizados 24 cordeiros, machos inteiros, da ra?a Santa In?s, recebendo dieta ad libitum com duas propor??es de volumoso (30 e 70 %), sem fonte de lip?dios ou com a inclus?o dela (gordura protegida ou gr?o de soja), abatidos com peso m?dio de 37,3 ? 1,53 kg. Objetivou-se determinar o consumo volunt?rio de nutrientes, o desempenho de cordeiros, as caracter?sticas de suas carca?as e o perfil de ?cidos graxos da gordura intramuscular do lombo desses animais. Os animais com dietas com 30% de volumoso apresentaram melhores desempenhos no que diz respeito ? efici?ncia alimentar, convers?o alimentar, ganho de peso e tempo no confinamento (m?dias de 18,9%; 5,38; 191g; 110 dias; respectivamente) comparados aos animais que receberam 70% de volumoso, que apresentaram m?dias de 9,1%; 11,97; 100g; 222 dias, para os par?metros supracitados, respectivamente. Os animais com dietas com 30% de volumoso apresentaram pesos e rendimentos de carca?a fria (16,43 kg e 46,48%) superiores aos indiv?duos alimentados com 70% de volumoso (15,27 kg e 43,17%). Apesar de as dietas n?o terem efeito na maioria dos cortes, o efeito sobre o pernil destaca a import?ncia da dieta sobre esse corte nobre, que apresentou m?dias de 2,15 kg e 1,99 kg para dietas com 30 e 70% de volumoso, respectivamente. A propor??o de 70% de volumoso na dieta de cordeiros em termina??o proporcionou aumento de 19,5% na quantidade de ?cidos graxos poli-insaturados (PUFAs), mas houve diminui??o de 49,6% dos ?cidos linol?icos conjugados (CLA) no m?sculo Longissimus. O uso de gordura protegida, na forma de sab?es de c?lcio, como fonte de lip?dios na dieta, ? mais eficiente que o gr?o de soja mo?do, proporcionando maiores concentra??es de PUFAs e CLA, sendo que a propor??o de volumoso na dieta pode alterar as propor??es desses ?cidos graxos na carne de cordeiro. / Disserta??o (Mestrado) ? Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Zootecnia, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, 2010. / ABSTRACT The experiment was conducted in a farm in Moura, Curvelo-MG, in the lamb area of Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri. 24 lambs of Santa In?s race were used under a diet ad libitum with two roughage (30 and 70 %), with or without fat source. They were slaughtered at about 37.3 ? 0.74 kg. The aim of this study was to determine nutrient intake, lambs performance, carcass traits, and the fatty acid profile of their loin intramuscular fat. Animals under 30% roughage diet showed higher alimentary efficience, feed conversion, weigh gain and confinement time (average: 18.9%; 5.38; 191g; 110 days; respectively). Animals under 30% roughage diet showed weigh and cold carcass (16.43 kg and 46.48%) superior to the ones under 70% roughage diet (15.27 kg and 43.17%). Besides diets did not affect most of the cuts, its effect on ham in emphasized by the averages 2.15 kg and 1.99 kg to 30 and 70% of roughage, respectively. 70% roughage diet to finishing lamb provided an increase of 19.5% on poliinsatured fatty acids (PUFAs). But there was a decrease of 49.6% of conjugated linoleic acids (CLA) on Long?ssimus, muscles. Using protected fatty, under calcium soap form, as fat source is more efficient than soy grain, providing higher PUFAs and CLA. Roughage on diet can upset proportions of fatty acid on lamb meat.

En production avicole, S. Senftenberg connue pour être souvent associée au couvoir, est devenue très fréquente dans les élevages de volaille. L’objectif de la thèse est donc de comprendre les causes de cette persistance. Les résultats présentés suggèrent que l’existence de souches persistantes au sein du sérovar Senftenberg peut être à l’origine de l’augmentation de sa prévalence dans les élevages. Nous avons en effet identifié des souches présentant des phénotypes distincts en termes de persistance dans les caeca de poulets. Les souches persistantes ont la capacité d’induire un portage intestinal similaire à S. Enteritidis.Toutefois, les résultats in vivo ont montré qu’à la différence de S. Enteritidis, les souches de S.Senftenberg sont incapables d’induire une forte infection systémique chez le poulet et la souris,probablement due à leur faible capacité à résister aux cellules immunitaires. La comparaison entre les souches persistantes et non-persistantes n’a montré aucune différence de survie dans le contenu et le mucus caecal. Cependant, les souches persistantes ont une meilleure capacité à coloniser et persister dans les tissus d’animaux ce qui pourrait être une explication possible à l’augmentation de leur persistance. Ce caractère pourrait donc présenter un risque pour la santé humaine étant donné que ces bactéries peuvent être présentes chez les animaux avant l'abattage et la transformation des aliments. / In poultry production, S. Senftenberg was associated to the hatchery, but has recently become morefrequent in poultry farms. The aim of our study is to explain the increased persistence of this serovar. Our findings suggest that the existence of persistent strains within the serovar Senftenberg could explain its recent emergence in poultry flocks. We identified strains showing different persistence phenotypes inchicken caeca. The persistent strains are able to induce an intestinal asymptomatic carrier state in chicks similar to S. Enteritidis. However, the in vivo analysis showed that S. Senftenberg strains, contrary to S.Enteritidis are unable to induce a strong systemic infection in infected mice and chickens which could be in part related to their low capacity to resist to immune cells. The comparison between persistent and nonpersistents trains showed no difference in their ability to grow in the caecal content and mucus. However,persistent strains are more able to colonize and persist in chickens and mice tissues, which could be a possible explanation for their increased persistence. This trait might thus present a human health risk as these bacteria could be present in animals before slaughter and during food processing.